Welcome

Welcome to the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies! We have been supporting the study of this important region at UCLA for more than 15 years, serving as a place to encourage the discussion and dissemination of scholarly work on the countries of the region.

Our Center has been critical to sustaining and expanding Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA, which has now become one of the major U.S. sites for the study of this region.

October 2, 2015 — UCLA historian Geoff Robinson was cited at a recent SOAS conference: "In their sweep and speed and their profound political implications, the events of 1965-66 [in Indonesia] were comparable to some of the most notorious campaigns of mass killings and imprisonment in the postwar period.”

April 17, 2015 -- Southeast Asia specialist Paul Barber, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is one of two recipients of the 2014-2015 UCLA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. For the past 10 years, he has engaged under-represented minority students in marine biology research in Bali.